The 2nd Eastern District Military Court fined a resident of Ust-Ilimsk 360 thousand rubles in a case of justifying terrorism on the internet due to a comment about Ruslan Zinin's shooting in the local military enlistment office building, reported "People of Baikal".
According to "Mediazona"**, the fine was imposed on 31-year-old Tatyana Avdeeva. In January, she was included in the Rosfinmonitoring registry of "terrorists and extremists"
In January 2025, law enforcement came to her with a search and seized two phones, in which they found a comment about Zinin's shot at the military commissar.
Judge Igor Turishchev delivered the verdict in one session, according to the case card on the court's website.
This is not an isolated case of prosecution for comments about Ruslan Zinin. In June 2024, law enforcement detained 41-year-old Artem Asalkhudin for the word "Handsome" under a post about Zinin. Investigators qualified this as a "call to terrorism".
In November 2024, for a comment of twelve words about Zinin's possible punishment, the court sentenced 61-year-old journalist Sergey Kornilevsky from Birobidzhan to 2.5 years in a penal colony.
On September 26, 2022 — a few days after the announcement of mobilization in Russia — 25-year-old Ruslan Zinin came to the military enlistment office in Irkutsk's Ust-Ilimsk and shot the military commissar Alexander Eliseev three times with a sawed-off shotgun while he was speaking to conscripts. After that, the young man poured a flammable liquid in the assembly hall and set it on fire. According to Zinin, he hoped to save his cousin, who had received a draft notice.
In January 2024, the 1st Eastern District Military Court sentenced Zinin to 19 years in prison. He was found guilty of committing a terrorist act, illegal possession of weapons, and their manufacture. Later, the appellate court increased his sentence to 20 years of imprisonment.
* Included in the list of "terrorists and extremists".
** Recognized as a "foreign agent" in Russia.